Robocopy Alternatives

Robocopy is described as 'Or "Robust File Copy", is a command-line directory replication command. It has been available as part of the Windows Resource Kit starting with Windows NT 4.0, and was introduced as a standard feature of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008' and is a File Copy utility in the backup & sync category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Robocopy for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Flathub apps. The best Robocopy alternative is FreeFileSync, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Robocopy are TeraCopy, Rclone, rsync and FastCopy.

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  1. VRangeSync icon
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    VRangeSync is a freeware File synchronization for Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. It is a command-line utility which copy and move data from one location to another on a storage device. It is a data migration, cloner, file replication and synchronization software.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    WinMend File Copy is a free and excellent batch file copy tool.It is the best help you can ever get to speed up system backup.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    One-Click-Backup saves (copies) your folders to an external location of your choice. You can select the default folders in your home directory as well as add aditional folders.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    Backup, synchronization and archiving for Windows 7 and 8.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    CopyFolder 1.4 provides many options for copying the contents of one folder to another. Subfolders can be filtered by paths, names or patterns. File names can be filtered by patterns. Files can be filtered by paths, dates, sizes or attributes.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  6. MacDropAny icon
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    MacDropAny is a simple app that painlessly allows Mac users to sync any folder on their computer through Dropbox. It provides similar functionality to DropboxFolderSync, which is an application for Windows. MacDropAny is compatible with Snow Leopard and Lion (from version 1.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  7. XXCopy icon
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    XXCOPY is a boldly extended XCOPY . First there was COPY, then came XCOPY. Now with the exploding number of files, everyone needs a tool like XXCOPY. Create a powerful backup batch script using XXCOPY.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. MiniCopier icon
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    MiniCopier is a multi-platform graphical copy manager. It lets you queue different transfers, resume a copy that has failed, limit the speed or pause the copy. If a transfer fails, an error is logged and the rest of the queue is treated. MiniCopier uses a system of drag-and-dro.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    FastBackup is a simple and an easy to use data backup and synchronization application. FastBackup is a multi-threaded program that can be used to schedule and backup your files and directories from their original location to other directories/drives in the same computer...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    Bit Copier is an alternative to the windows copier. The difference is the more options you get when using this, you get the ability to choose the buffer speed, the option to copy empty folders or not, and the ability to keep copying even when an error occurs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. Ycopy icon
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    Simple, free, set and forget, copy utility. When a file can't be copied Ycopy skips it continues with the other files. A printable report is generated of files that were unable to be copied. No more poring over directories and files to find out where the copy was up to, skip...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Hash-o-matic icon
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    Simple hash validator allowing to compare two files, generate the checksum of a file and verify if a hash matches a file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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